vBulletin 3.7.0 Release Candidate 2
 

vBulletin 3.7.0 Release Candidate 2

THIS IS PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE.
IT IS UNSUPPORTED.

If you are not fully at home with backing-up and restoring your forum, dealing with bugs and regular upgrades, DO NOT INSTALL THIS VERSION

Progress towards vBulletin 3.7.0 becoming our 'stable' version and replacing 3.6.x is going well, and the time has come to put out our second release candidate version.

Any customers currently using any other pre-release version of vBulletin 3.7.0 should upgrade as soon as possible.

What does Release Candidate mean?
Release Candidate, or RC for short, means that we believe vBulletin 3.7 will be ready to be declared a "stable" and "supported" supported release once it has undergone some final testing. The only known bugs that may remain are trivial.

RCs will be released until only trivial bugs are being fixed. Once this happens, the next stage is to move on to "gold" or, as it's officially known, 3.7.0.

This is still pre-release software. If you are not fully at home with backing-up and restoring your forum, dealing with bugs and regular upgrades, do not install this version but rather wait for the final, 3.7.0 version.


Customers should bear in mind that this is a release candidate, not a certified 'stable' release so the following caveats apply:

• Pre-release software is unsupported and you install beta and RC versions at your own risk.
• Some minor bugs remain unresolved at this time, so pre-release software should not be deployed on production sites.
• You should always back up your database fully before attempting to install pre-release software.
• If you choose to install this version, you should be aware that we plan to release new RC versions in rapid succession as bugs are fixed and holes are plugged. Do not install this RC version if you are not willing or able to keep up-to-date with new releases.
• The ImpEx import system does not support the 3.7 code yet, and will not support it until the release of 3.7.0 (stable).

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Please do not use this thread to ask for support!!

First!

we are waiting for 3.7.0 Gold

I think GOLD will be released mid April ;)

What a nice surprise this is. Upgrading now.

Regards Jason :)

what is going on here? Just released 3.6.9 yesterday and today 3.7.0 RC2?

you did not follow the release timeline rapidphim... 3.7.x serie is a different release from the 3.6... the 3.6.9 you see yesterday is a bug fix for the 3.6 version.

installed every thing went fine great

They changed a phrase but everything else went ok. vb_code_is_x is now bb_code_is_x.

only one phrase change nothing else ?

Excellent news, and great to see them moving ahead so positively.

Thank You guys
great news....

I haven't caught anything else yet.

There have been no bug reports for RC2, either. Well, none that I was able to reproduce. All is looking good!

Only one is the FAQ link missing at: faq.php?faq=vb3_board_usage#faq_vb3_thread_tools

It says:

But it isn't a link. Same for the polls. You can correct it yourself. It's not major, so I would expect GOLD either in the next release, or the one after.

Regards Jason :)

What is the correction?

Go to:

ACP --> FAQ --> FAQ Manager

Then edit it and put the link there until the next version.

Regards Jason :)

and moooooooooving right along......

This is exciting!

I predirected this :D

You Einstein? :p

GOLD maybe the next release... There has been no bug reports that I can reproduce, yet.

Regards Jason :)

I've followed the betas and have RC1 installed at the present moment.... but im actually going to skip this RC, I think its like Jase2 says - gold soon.

Installed, but what does this fix?

Look in the "Bug Tracker" and see what has been fixed. I can think of a number that have been fixed.

Regards Jason :)

This is exciting :D

I know some pesky validation errors were fixed.

running to upgrade :)

Ah, I'm itching to upgrade but I know I wanna wait for gold! Decisions lol.

Give this release 1-2 weeks for bug testing and to let some different setups get it installed. Maybe 1 more RC, thats a big maybe. And Gold within a month hopefully.

That's the closest you can predict? I thought you were more accurate than that. ;)

I agree hehe. I would expect GOLD this month.

Regards Jason :)

thanks for this release ... will upgrade soon

niceone, simply and easy ... :D

nevermind stupid me

I like the new photgallery option. Are the photo's stored in the vB database or as files on the server? If they are stored in the vB database, can it easily be configured to NOT store in the DB but rather just as files on the server?

Sorry if I'm asking my question in a completely stupid place, or if it has been answered somewhere else previous and I haven't spotted, or searched it .... No, seriously, I'm losing my eyesight from retinopathy, so IF I have searched for the question and found an answer somewhere, then it's very likely that I haven't read it. ...

What versions of MySQL and PHP is 3.7 gold going to work with?

Thanks in advance...
:-D

I'm running 3.7 and I have PHP 4.4.7 and mySQL 5.0.27, works fine. Although, PHP officially ended support for PHP 4, so upcoming versions of anything should mostly work with PHP 5 arrays.

Not the place for support but:

Please note that vBulletin 3.7 requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 or later.

woot!

whats new in this version

A lot of things. Please see this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249460

Oh man I want to upgrade so bad!!!!!!

I upgraded my smaller forum and it is working flawlessly but I really am trying to sit on my hands for the larger forum.

Have there been a lot of bug reports for RC2?